United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Amends the venue provisions of Federal law to provide that a civil action in which a defendant is the United States, a United States agency, or an officer or employee thereof acting in an official capacity may be brought in any judicial district in which the plaintiff or defendant has its principal place of business, and must be brought in a judicial district in which a substantial portion of the impact or injury exists. Requires an appeal from a final order of the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture, or the Maritime Administration to be brought in a judicial circuit in which a substantial portion of the impact or injury exists.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1980
Animal Damage Control Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to carry out a program for controlling the damage caused by predators of livestock. Requires the Secretary, in conducting such program: (1) to use and permit the use of lethal and nonlethal animal control devices, methods, and chemical toxicants; (2) to undertake research activities concerning chemical toxicants and other nonlethal control techniques; (3) to use preventive control techniques to manage predator populations; and (4) to establish an ad hoc committee to review biennially the Secretary's animal damage control activities. Directs the Secretaries to submit annually a joint report on the development and implementation of such program to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1980
Small Business Earnings Retention Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit business to accumulate up to $500,000 of earnings without incurring liability for the tax on accumulated earnings; (2) increase from $100,000 to $500,000 the dollar amount of used investment property eligible for the investment tax credit; and (3) permit business with gross receipts of less than $1,000,000 for the last two preceeding taxable years to elect to use the cash method of accumulating in reporting inventories.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1980
Resource Conservation and Development Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a resource conservation and development program to assist States, local units of government, and local nonprofit organizations to operate and maintain a planning process for land conservation and utilization, natural resources development, and rural economic and environmental improvement. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance in developing area plans for designated rural areas; (2) cooperate in conducting surveys and inventories, disseminating information, and developing area plans; (3) assist in the carrying out of approved area plans by local public agencies and nonprofit organizations designated by States; and (4) enter into specified agreements. Sets forth terms and conditions of agreements which must be met if the Secretary is to provide any technical or financial assistance, including loans, to a State agency, local government, or local nonprofit organization in carrying out works of improvement specified in an approved area plan. Permits the identification of groups or problems for special consideration in area plans. Declares that the authority of the Secretary under this Act shall be supplemental and not in lieu of any authority of the Secretary under any other provision of law. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Agriculture a Resource Conservation and Development Policy Board to advise the Secretary regarding the administration of this Act. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the program provided for in this Act and to report on such evaluation, with recommendations. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act, with specified annual limits on technical and financial assistance and on loans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act to include any loan, payment, or gift made for the purpose of participating or intervening in a political campaign for certain offices within the definition of a "contribution or expenditure" by a national bank, a corporation, or a labor organization for purposes of such Act and the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Allows a corporation or labor organization to establish and administer a separate contributory fund for political purposes provided that all contributions for or to the fund are made voluntarily and are unrelated to any fees required for membership or employment in such organization or corporation. Prohibits the payment of any costs of establishing or administering the fund from moneys obtained in any commercial transaction.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to limit the sum of all severance taxes or fees, for any fiscal year, levied upon or collected from any taxpayer by a State or any political subdivision thereof on coal destined for shipment in interstate commerce for use in any powerplant or major fuel-burning installation or on any improvements or other rights, property, or assets produced, owned, or used in connection with the production of such coal. States that such tax shall not exceed a total of 12 1/2 percent of the value of such coal produced during a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1980
Agricultural Protection Act of 1980 - Title I: Food Security Fund - Designates this title as the "Food Security Act of 1980." Declares it to be U.S. policy that: (1) adequate financial resources be placed at the President's disposal to meet urgent humanitarian needs for wheat in foreign nations and comply with international obligations to provide such assistance, within the framework of a market economy; and (2) governmental acquisition and perpetual maintenance of large additional stocks of a wheat reserve solely to provide for emergency food needs in developing countries would depress producer prices, destroy production incentives, disrupt markets, impair U.S. capacity to meet urgent humanitarian and foreign policy objectives, and require the expenditure of large sums of public money for the storage and handling of such wheat. Permits wheat to be acquired through purchases in the U.S. open market in such a manner as the Secretary of Agriculture determines will not unduly disrupt the market. Directs the Secretary to formulate and administer a program of purchasing, on a voluntary basis, wheat under the Agricultural Act of 1949 for donation for specified purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize stocks of wheat acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation, if such stocks are promptly replaced with wheat held in the producer storage program if such program wheat is not available in amounts and locations sufficient to meet the purposes of this Act. Sets forth such purposes as determined by the President: (1) to provide urgent humanitarian relief in any foreign country which suffers a major disaster as determined by the President and whose needs for relief cannot be satisfied in a timely manner under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954; (2) to assist any developing country to meet its food requirements at any time that the U.S. domestic supply of wheat is so limited that quantities cannot be made available under such Act; and (3) to fulfill any lawful international obligation. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary to make wheat available to eligible foreign nations under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary, upon determination of the President that wheat is needed for such purposes, to: (1) make all necessary arrangements for the purchase and disposition thereof; and (2) pay costs of processing, transportation, handling and other incidental costs to designated points abroad of wheat stocks acquired for such donation. Provides that wheat acquired under this Act: (1) may be processed in the U.S. and shipped in the form of wheat flour when conditions in the recipient country so require; and (2) shall not be subject to any quantitative limitations on export under specified provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1979. Directs the Secretary to utilize specified funds and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act. Authorizes the Corporation to be reimbursed for such funds. Title II: Isolation of Embargoed Grain - Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase and take title to and possession of all grain (as well as soybeans) the export of which to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was blocked by the President in retaliation for the invasion of Afghanistan. Prohibits the Corporation from selling or disposing such grain at a price or for value less than the equivalent of parity, except under specified conditions. Permits the Corporation to sell or dispose of such grain without regard for such restriction in quantities: (1) up to ten percent of the total embargoed amount of a particular commodity, during each market year, whenever the Secretary determines that the carryover at the end of a marketing year will be less than the average carryover for the three immediately preceding marketing years and that the sale or other disposition would not unduly depress the market price; (2) an additional ten percent in any market year if the Secretary determines the market price would not be unduly depressed and reports to the appropriate congressional committees 30 days prior to such disposal; and (3) as necessary to avoid spoilage or deterioration, provided that prompt replacement is made in appropriate cases. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set 125 percent of the then current level of price support for feed grains as the minimum market price which must be reached before certain producer storage program conditions come into effect which are designed to induce producers to redeem and market the feed grains securing loans under such program without regard to the maturity dates thereof. Sets 145 percent of the then current level of price support for feed grains as the minimum market price which must be reached before the Secretary may require producers to repay such loans, plus accrued interest thereon, refund amounts paid for storage, and pay such additional interest and other charges as may be required by regulation. Sets ten percent above such levels at which the Secretary may call for repayment of wheat or feed grains as one of the minimum levels at which the Commodity Credit Corporation must charge for any of its stocks of such commodities. Title III: Land Diversion Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary to establish and announce, not later than March 1, 1980, a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of feed grains designed to divert 12,000,000 metric tons from production. Declares eligible for such payments a producer who devotes to approved conservation uses a minimum of ten percent of the cropland acreage planted or which would be planted to the 1980 feed grain crop of such producer. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such payment. Includes as a factor in such formula, a minimum payment rate for corn of $1.00 per bushel, and a payment rate for all other feed grains which the Secretary determines to be fair and reasonable in relation to the corn rate. Provides for a similar wheat diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of wheat, designed to divert 4,000,000 metric tons from production. Includes as a factor in determining payments under such program a minimum payment rate of $1.25 per bushel of wheat. Provides that, for the 1980 crop of wheat, the minimum payment rate shall be $0.50 per bushel under a special wheat acreage grazing and hay program. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, effective with respect to the 1979 crop of corn, to authorize the Secretary to make available to any producer, who did not file a timely agreement to participate in the 1979 feed grain set-aside program, loans and purchases up to a total of $100,000 on corn produced in the 1979 crop year on the producer's acreage normally planted to designated crops. Exempts sales of corn for use in the production of alcohol for motor fuel, at facilities that began operation after January 4, 1980, and at prices not less than the prevailing market prices for corn in the normal marketing area of such facilities, from minimum sales price requirements for sales of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks of corn. Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to direct the Secretary to set price support loan levels for agricultural commodities at 90 percent of the parity price whenever the President or any member of the executive branch suspends export sales to any country or area to which the U.S. otherwise continues commercial trade. Provides that, if such suspension is based on reasons of national security or foreign policy, the loan level may be set at not less than the average market price during the 30 days immediately preceding such suspension. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to raise the minimum quantities of agricultural commodities required to be distributed: (1) for 1980 to 1,650,000 metric tons; and (2) for 1981 and each fiscal year thereafter to 1,800,000 metric tons. Lowers the minimum portion of such quantities which must be distributed through nonprofit voluntary agencies and the World Food Program for 1982 and each fiscal year thereafter to 1,350,000 metric tons.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit for expenditures made to upgrade railroad property acquired after December 31, 1979, from a railroad in reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act to specified standards established by the Federal Railroad Administration's Track Safety Standards.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1980
National Heritage Policy Act of 1979 - Title I - Declares the findings of Congress concerning the identification and protection of resources significant to the national heritage. Title II: National Heritage Program - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a national heritage program and an historic preservation program. Directs the Secretary to establish and administer a National Register of Natural Areas which shall include resources of national, state and local significance. Declares that items of national significance shall be designated as "National Natural Landmarks" and such designations shall only apply to an area which clearly meets the standards for national significance as established by this Act. Requires the Secretary to expand and administer the National Register of Historic Places which shall include resources of national, state, and local significance. Requires the Secretary, within one year of the effective date of this Act, to develop or expand regulations or guidelines, as appropriate, for: (1) documentation of significant information concerning such resources; (2) eligibility criteria for inclusion in the Natural or Historic Register; and (3) nominations to the Natural or Historic Register by the State natural heritage officer of the State historic preservation officer as established by this Act. Requires the Secretary to establish revised criteria for the designation of nationally significant areas and places on the Registers. Requires the Secretary, within 18 months after the effective date of this Act, to develop regulations and guidelines for State natural heritage programs and State historic preservation programs, and to request the Governor of each participating State to designate a State natural heritage officer and historic preservation officer. Declares that there may be one person for both such positions. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) develop a process for the voluntary involvement of the public in the conservation and preservation of natural and historic resources; (2) extend honorific Federal recognition of exceptional efforts by local governments and the private sector in the identification and protection of significant heritage resources; (3) develop and provide technical and nontechnical information and assistance on all aspects of natural and historic heritage conservation; and (4) study, in cooperation with other agencies and private and public organizations, the feasibility and necessity of establishing or developing other protective measures at the Federal, State, and local level for natural areas and historic places. Directs each Federal agency, with the advice of the Secretary and in cooperation with the State historic preservation officer, to locate and nominate to the Historic Register, historic resources located on lands which it owns or administers. Specifies measures to be taken by Federal agencies to provide for the maintenance, preservation, rehabilitation, or restoration of federally owned historic resources. Requires the head of any Federal agency having direct or indirect jurisdiction over a proposed Federal or federally assisted undertaking in any State or having authority to license any such undertaking, prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds or the issuance of any license, to take into account the effect of the undertaking on any area included in or eligible for inclusion in the Natural Register. Specifies that, prior to the approval of any Federal undertaking which may adversely affect any natural or historic landmark, the head of the Federal agency involved shall determine that no feasible alternative to such undertaking exists. Requires the Council on Heritage Conservation, with the concurrence of the Secretary, to promulgate regulations or guidelines for the exemption of Federal undertakings from requirements of this Act. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to States for the conservation of natural areas. Includes networks, cultural landscapes, and neighborhoods significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, or culture, in the National Register. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the Historic Preservation Fund through fiscal year 1983. Title III: Council on Heritage Conservation - Renames the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation the Council on Heritage Conservation. Directs the Council to: (1) review Federal policies and programs affecting historic places natural areas; and (2) inform and educate interested Federal agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, other nations, and international organizations and private groups and individuals as to the authorized activities of the Council. Authorizes appropriations for the assessment for United States membership in the International Centre for Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property for fiscal years 1979 and 1980. Stipulates that no appropriation may be authorized and no payment made to the Centre in excess of 25 percent of the total annual assessment of such organization. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Permits the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations and bequests of money and personal property for the purposes of this Act. Allows the head of each Federal agency, after consultation with the Secretary, to withhold from public disclosure, information which might reveal the specific location of sites, objects, buildings, structures, terrestrial communities, aquatic communities, geologic features, or landforms which are eligible for or included in the Natural Register or the Historic Register, whenever it is determined that the disclosure of such information would create a risk of harm to such locations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction to business enterprises engaged in the manufacture, importation, distribution, lease, or sale of products for which such businesses may incur product liability for contributions to their product liability loss reserve accounts and for amounts paid to captive insurers (wholly or partially-owned by such businesses) for product liability insurance. Requires that such businesses demonstrate difficulty in obtaining product liability insurance at reasonable rates. Disallows any deductions for product liability losses which do not exceed the sum of the total trust funds in the taxpayer's account at the beginning of the taxable year plus the amount of deductible payments made by the taxpayer to the account during such year. Imposes penalties for the improper use of product liability reserve funds.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1980
Family Business Ranch, and Farm Protection Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Act, with respect to estate taxes, to reduce the value of any jointly held interest in a decedent's gross estate by up to 50 percent (not to exceed $500,000) of any real or tangible property devoted to use as a farm or to use in any other trade or business, where the decedent's spouse and/or children materially participated in the operation of such farm, trade, or business. Specifies a formula for the computation of the special value of any such interest. Imposes an additional tax to recapture any such tax benefits should the spouse and/or child dispose of any interest in such property within five years following the decedent's death.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1980
Rock Island Transition Act - Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to continue directed service over specified lines of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad until April 2, 1980 or until such lines are sold. Directs the Commission to expedite proceedings involving the Rock Island. Requires the Commission to reach a final decision on specified proceedings involving a sale, transfer, or lease of any line of the Rock Island to a solvent carrier within a specified period. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to purchase redeemable preference shares or trustee certificates convertible to redeemable preference shares as necessary to facilitate the purchase of properties of the Rock Island by other railroads. Establishes a ceiling for the total par value of such shares which the Secretary may purchase. Exempts activities under this Act from the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the International Olympic Committee should allow Taiwan to participate in the 1980 winter Olympic games under its own name, flag, and national anthem.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Small Business Equal Access to Justice Act - Title I: Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy - Amends title II of the Small Business Investment Act (Study of Small Business) to direct the Office of Advocacy within the Small Business Administration to assist the Attorney General, Federal agencies, and the Chairman of the Administrative Conference to facilitate relief afforded to small businesses under such Act. Requires the Chief Counsel for Advocacy to submit biennial reports to the President and Congress on awards made to small businesses under such Act. Title II: Small Business Equal Access to Justice - Excludes from the definition of "party" for purposes of this Act: (1) an individual whose net worth exceeds $1,000,000; and (2) any partnership, corporation, association, organization, or sole owner of an unincorporated business whose net worth exceeds $5,000,000, but includes an agricultural cooperative, as defined in the Agricultural Marketing Act, regardless of its net worth. Entitles a prevailing party (other than the United States) to be awarded fees and other expenses, including attorney fees, which were incurred by such party in: (1) an administrative adjudication (excluding ratemaking and license application hearings, but including such actions as suspension or modification of a license); or (2) in any civil action, other than a tort, brought by or against the United States, unless the agency conducting such adjudication, or the court having jurisdiction of such action, finds that the position of the agency or the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust. Allows the agency or the court to reduce any such award to the extent that the prevailing party unduly and unreasonably protracted the final resolution of the matter in controversy. Stipulates that such awards in administrative adjudication shall be paid by the particular agency over which the party prevails, but prohibits authorization of appropriations to such agency for the specific purpose of such payments. Authorizes a party dissatisfied with such award in an administrative adjudication to petition for leave to appeal the decision in an appropriate Federal court. Authorizes a court to award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in any civil action brought by or against the United States or any agency, including the Post Office, or official of the United States acting in an official capacity, where the court may award such fees in such suits involving private parties (thus applying to Government litigation the common law and statutory exceptions to the "American rule" which requires parties to be responsible for their own attorney fees). Directs the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to report annually on the amount of fees and expenses awarded during the preceding fiscal year in such agency adjudications and civil actions. Makes this Act applicable to any civil action pending on, or commencing after, the date of enactment, except for civil tax actions, which shall be subject to this Act six months after enactment. Directs the Office of the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States and Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to provide to the Small Business Office of Advocacy the information required to be collected in title I of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Medical Expense Protection Act - Title I: Catastrophic Automatic Protection Plan - Adds a new title to the Social Security Act, Title XXI - Catastrophic Automatic Protection Plan. Establishes a voluntary insurance plan to provide automatic protection to families against catastrophic medical expenses, the Catastrophic Automatic Protection Plan (CAPP), to be funded by general revenues and coinsurance amounts. Provides that a family will be eligible for CAPP assistance for CAPP covered expenses after members of the family incur medical expenses equal to the deductible. Stipulates that eligibility is contingent upon the payment of specified coinsurance amounts. Provides that the deductible and coinsurance amounts shall be equal to approximately 10 to 20 percent of family income, graduated according to income. Provides that there shall be no coinsurance payments after a family has incurred expenses equal to the "CAPP stop-loss". Provides that the CAPP stop-loss for any year shall be equal to approximately 10 to 25 percent of family income, again graduated according to income. Sets forth provisions relating to applications for assistance under this Act. Requires any family filing for assistance under this Act to file an income statement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Permits civil penalties to be imposed for submission of an intentionally false statement. Provides that payments shall be made for 100 percent of covered CAPP medical expenses and services except that in the case of prescription drugs for chronic illness the payment rate shall be 75 percent. Provides that there shall be no coinsurance for such drugs. Provides that payments with respect to CAPP covered services which are described in title XVIII (Medicare) of the Act shall be made to providers, with specified exceptions, in the amount and in accordance with the procedures set forth in such title. Establishes the Catastrophic Automatic Protection Plan Trust Fund in the United States Treasury. Appropriates to the fund, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts necessary to make CAPP payments. Creates a Board of Trustees to hold the Fund, report to Congress concerning the Fund, and review policies allowed in managing the Fund. Directs the Secretary to provide for a listing of drug entities which may be legally introduced into interstate commerce with specified therapeutic categories. Provides that any individual dissatisfied with any determination relating to the individual's eligibility for or amount of CAPP benefits shall be entitled to a hearing concerning such determination and to judicial review of the Secretary's final decision. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act, including "CAPP covered services" which is defined as services furnished to an individual to the extent payment for such service may be made under the Medicare program, except that under CAPP: (1) inpatient psychiatric services shall be covered for 45 days in a calendar year; (2) items and services related to pregnancy, delivery, and care of a child through the first year are covered; (3) immunizations against serious communicable diseases are covered; and (4) prescription drugs for "chronic illness" are covered for an individual entitled to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare. Directs the Secretary to provide for an evaluation, by an entity outside the Department of Health and Human Services, of the implementation of this Act during its first five years and to report to Congress on the evaluation. Title II: Employer Health Plans - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, subject to stated conditions, amounts received by an employee through an accident or health plan towards which the employer contributed, only if the plan is a qualified plan. Subjects such exclusion to certain conditions, including: (1) the employer must make a contribution equal to at least 50 percent of the premium for the least expensive qualified plan; (2) requiring the employer to pay the employee a monthly rebate if the employee is offered more than one qualified plan and the employer contribution for the plan the employee selects would be greater than the premium of a low option plan, or the employee elects to participate in no qualified plan and is otherwise covered by a qualified plan; and (3) that the employer contribution for any employee for a family plan shall not exceed $120 per month. Defines terms including, among others, "qualified health plan." Defines such plan as a plan of an employer providing medical care for employees and their families which the Secretary certifies as meeting certain requirements, including the provision of CAPP covered services after the employee has incurred out-of-pocket expenses in excess of $2,500. Prohibits an income tax deduction for contributions by an employer to a health plan for compensation to his or her employees for sickness, unless the employer offers a qualified plan. Limits the income tax deduction for medical and dental expenses to an individual: (1) who is blind or disabled as determined under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Act or is receiving Medicare benefits because of end-stage renal disease; or (2) for care while a resident of a long-term care facility or of an institution for the care, rehabilitation or training of the physically or mentally handicapped. Provides for a deduction, not to exceed $250, for one-half of the premiums for a qualified health plan. Title III: Medicare Amendments - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the time limitation on inpatient hospital care. Makes individuals entitled to benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII of the Act eligible for certain benefits under CAPP. Eliminates coinsurance under part A. Provides that any charge for any service or procedure performed by a doctor shall be reasonable if: (1) the service or procedure is performed in a designated physician shortage area; (2) the physician has a regular practice in the shortage area; (3) the charge does not exceed the prevailing charge level as otherwise determined; and (4) the charge does not exceed the amount generally charged by such physician for similar services. Permits entities utilized for administering the Medicare program to be utilized for administering CAPP. Title IV: Studies and Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary: (1) to provide for studies of, and demonstration projects with respect to, the desirability and feasibility of adding a long-term care program into the Medicare program or CAPP and to report to Congress the results of the studies and projects; (2) to conduct a study of the feasibility of, and options with respect to, consolidating title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act into CAPP or other programs and to report to Congress concerning such study; and (3) to conduct a study of the feasibility of promoting better efficiency and effectiveness in the Medicare and Medicaid programs by permitting those eligible under such programs the option of receiving benefits through competitive private plans to report to Congress concerning such study. Requires the Secretary to reduce Medicaid payments to a State if the State reduces the number of categories of individuals eligible for benefits or the amount of benefits provided under: (1) title V (Maternal and Child Health), XIX, or XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Act; or (2) any program providing benefits similar to those under title XXI, and such reduction results in an increase in the amount of payments that would otherwise be made under such title. Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to consider it an unfair trade practice for any entity to advertise that any amounts paid to an individual represents reimbursement for the deductible under CAPP.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and announce, not later than March 1, 1980, a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of feed grains. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that feed grain producers devote to approved conservation uses, not later than July 1, 1980, an amount of cropland equal to 20 percent of their 1980 crop planted acreage. Set forth a formula for determining the amount of such payments. Sets payment rates, for purposes of such formula, at $1.25 per bushel for corn and at a fair and reasonable rate in relation to such corn rate, as determined by the Secretary, for all other feed grains.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Requires the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company to maintain its entire railroad system as it existed on September 1, 1979, through August 31, 1980, unless: (1) any discontinuance or abandonment is authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission; and (2) no affected State (or local or regional or transportation authority) opposes such action. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to the Emergency Rail Services Act of 1970, to guarantee trustee certificates of such railroad. Raises the ceiling on the outstanding aggregate principal amount of all such certificates.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Expresses appreciation to Canada for: (1) its historic close relations and cooperation with the United States in conducting foreign policy; (2) its support for U.S. efforts to obtain the safe release of the hostages in Iran; and (3) its efforts to protect and arrange the safe departure of certain U.S. citizens from Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Amends the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to raise the limits on the total principal balances outstanding at any one time on loans insured or guaranteed under such Act: (1) from $400,000 to $600,000 for any borrower; and (2) from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 for all such loans. Extends the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make new contracts of insurance or guarantee under such Act until September 30, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1980
Individual Investors' Incentive Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to ten percent of the cost of corporate securities purchased by such taxpayer during the taxable year. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $1,000 ($2,000 for married individuals filing jointly). Requires the recapture of specified amounts of such credit if any securities for which the credit is allowed are disposed of by the taxpayer within one year of their purchase. Disqualifies estates, trusts, and nonresident aliens from eligibility for the credit.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set the loan level at 90 percent of the parity price for any specified agricultural commodities in which export sales have been suspended (presently such loan levels are set only when export sales are suspended due to short supplies). Stipulates that the loan level shall be at least the average market price for the five marketing days preceding the suspension of exports of such commodities for national security or foreign policy reasons.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should call upon the International Olympic Committee to relocate the 1980 summer Olympic games outside of the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1980
Requires the United States to purchase all grain the export of which to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was blocked by the President in retaliation for the invasion, by that country, of Afghanistan. Prohibits any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States from: (1) selling or disposing of any such grain at less than parity; or (2) selling or disposing of, for purposes of this Act, a greater quantity of any specific kind of grain than that purchased in compliance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Provides for an exemption from the windfall profits tax for independent oil producers for an amount equal to 1,000 barrels of crude oil multiplied by the number of days in the taxable period.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Used Machinery Investment Credit Adjustment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $100,000 to $200,000 the cost of used property which is eligible for the investment tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
National Forest Multiple-Use Management Act of 1980 - Specifies that lands within the National Forest System considered for wilderness designation under the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE) conducted by the Department of Agriculture, but not recommended for designation as wilderness or identified for further planning during the 96th Congress shall continue to be managed for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System which have been recommended for designation as wilderness during the 96th Congress, but have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1984, shall be managed beginning on such date for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System which have been identified for further planning during the 96th Congress, but which have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1985, shall be managed beginning on such date for uses other than wilderness. Stipulates that if: (1) an executive communication has been received by Congress recommending the designation of any such lands as wilderness prior to January 1, 1985, and such lands have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1987, they shall be managed beginning January 1, 1987, for uses other than wilderness; and (2) at any time a determination is made by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 that any such lands shall not be recommended for designation as wilderness, they shall be managed beginning on the date of such determination for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System recommended for designation as primitive area during the 96th Congress, for termination and management for use other than wilderness, shall be managed after the date of enactment of this Act for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System that have been recommended for designation as primitive area during the 96th, for termination and designation as wilderness, but which have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1984, shall be managed beginning on such date for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should inform Iran that the United States will initiate military operations against Iran unless the hostages held in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran are released by a certain day. Declares that the President should order U.S. Armed Forces into areas adjacent to Iran for appropriate action.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1979
Irrigation Water Conservation Tax Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for equipment which conserves irrigation water an additional ten percent investment tax credit and an election to depreciate such equipment based on a useful life of three years.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1979
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal of appropriate design to Louis L'Amour in recognition of his distinguished career as an author and his contributions to the Nation through his historically based works. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike bronze duplicates of such medal for sale to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1979
Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to require Federal agencies to provide general notice of, and an opportunity for public participation in, rulemaking proceedings concerning public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1979
Repeals the provision prohibiting Federal recognition of Virgin Islands' National Guard Officers above the grade of colonel as members of the National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1979
Individual Savings and Investment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual amounts contributed to a rollover account meeting the requirements of this Act. Defines such rollover account as a trust created or organized in the United States for the exclusive benefit of an individual or his beneficiaries. Requires such a trust: (1) to accept only cash or stock or securities of a domestic corporation contributed by such individual only; (2) to be a bank or other person satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury; (3) to invest trust funds in stock or securities of a domestic corporation or hold them in interest-bearing bank deposits; (4) to make the interest of the individual nonforfeitable in the balance of such rollover account; (5) to permit the individual to elect, no more often than each taxable year, whether such rollover account shall be discretionary (with investment determined by the trustee) or self-directed (with investment directed by the individual). Requires the trustee of a rollover fund to establish on its books, without segregation of assets, an ordinary income fund, a capital gain fund, and a capital fund. Specifies the contents of each fund. Requires inclusion of any amount paid or distributed from the account in the individual's gross income for the taxable year in which such payment or distribution is made. Requires any such payment or distribution from the account to be treated as made: first, from the ordinary income fund; second, from the capital gain fund; and third, from the capital fund. Prohibits treatment of any payment or distribution as being made from a particular fund until the balance of any fund which precedes it in priority has been exhausted. Sets forth rules for the treatment of losses, security pledges, and transfers of account incident to divorce. Limits the number of rollover accounts which an individual may maintain to one at a time. Requires the trustee of such an account to keep appropriate records and to file annual returns with the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any gain from the sale of land to the United States, a State, or a tax-exempt conservation authority to be used for fish and wildlife conservation or preservation as a natural area.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1979
Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to make indemnity payments to producers, growers, and processors of poultry, eggs, poultry or egg products, swine, swine products, livestock, livestock products, and animal feeds who suffer losses because of contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls. Sets forth the formula for determining the amount of such payments. Authorizes the Secretary to use the funds and facilities of the Commodity Credit Corporation in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1979
Amends the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Incorporated, to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia in honor and recognition of the men and women of the armed forces who served in the Vietnam war.
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